Screening Children
This chapter focuses on how your program screens recently enrolled children with disabilities or suspected delays.
Young children vary in their skills, knowledge, backgrounds, and abilities. Effective teaching requires individualized teaching and chances to learn for all children to access, participate, and thrive in early learning settings. Individualizing for children who need more support helps ensure effective teaching for children with disabilities and other special needs across all the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework domains. Using children’s Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) and Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals is part of effective teaching, individualizing, and creating inclusive environments to support children’s positive outcomes.
This chapter focuses on how your program screens recently enrolled children with disabilities or suspected delays.
This chapter describes how to support families and their children through what is often an unfamiliar, and maybe scary, referral process.
This vignette provides guidance for supporting children who do not qualify for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) services.
Learn how to engage families when they have concerns that a child is at risk for a disability or developmental delay, communicating the benefits of screenings and providing support when children will need further evaluation.
Learn more about the Head Start Program Performance Standards as they relate to interim services. Identify ways to put these standards into practice.
Watch this short video to find out about a family’s experience when they learn that their child has a special need. Reflect on ways to strengthen partnerships with families like this one.